Manhunt 2 loses appeal -- Posted by James on Monday, October 8 2007
GamesIndustry reports that the BBFC have again refused to classify Manhunt 2 after an appeal by the publisher.

After initially being refused classification, Manhunt 2 publishers Rockstar edited the game, resulting in the US classification board granting the game an 'M' certificate.

However, this side of the pond things aren't quite so rosy: "We recognise that the distributor has made changes to the game, but we do not consider that these go far enough to address our concerns about the original version," stated David Cooke from the BBFC.

We spoke to the BBFC when this story originally broke several months ago, and the story now is the same as it was then - it's down to Rockstar to clean up the game enough if they still want to push for classification.

They don't seem to have got the hint that it's the casual, almost arbitary violence that the BBFC don't like - not violence full stop.

Quite when this saga will end is unsure, but one thing is certain - Rockstar aren't going to win, and arguably neither are those people that wanted the full Manhunt 2 experience.

Stay tuned for more news.

Neo Geo comes to the VC -- Posted by James on Sunday, October 7 2007
A slew of games arrived on Wii's Virtual Console on Friday - 5 titles is something of an avalanche when some updates have been one, occasionally rubbish title.

It was something of a special Friday, though, as it heralded the arrival of the Neo Geo onto the Virtual Console - with any luck some more Neo Geo games will be heading our way soon.

I'm using the past tense to describe Friday as we're two days late - arguably Wii UK is quite considerably later on pretty much everything: we sort of 'stopped' this Summer.

I apologise, and I'm not going to bang on about it - instead of rabbiting on about sorting it out, I'm just going to get on with it. You just bloody well wait and see.

Anyway, the games:

Fatal Fury ( Neo Geo ) - 900 points - Whacking the bollocks out of people for a seemingly arbitary price. 900?

Streets of Rage 3 ( Mega Drive ) - 800 points - Taming puppies in a forest. Nope, it's whacking the crap out of people again. Fun, though.

Golden Axe III ( Mega Drive ) - 800 points - Lots of mythical nonsense shrouding the simple premise of violence. It's very dated, but quite good fun.

Super Thunder Blade ( Mega Drive ) - 800 points - One of the finest titles for a game I've seen, it requires you to be violent with a helicopter. Lots of violence this week.

Landstalker Treasures of King Nole ( Mega Drive ) - 800 points - Sadly I'm not too sure about this one, mainly as it sounds a bit rubbish. Any game where you play as somebody called 'Nigel' sets off alarm bells for me.

The forums are still ticking over, so please, please - come and talk on there. You can talk about this story by clicking this link. Bonza!

Stay tuned for more news.

We'll get there.

Thank you.